One year later, a look at NBA arenas will help answer that question.
By William C. Rhoden, The Undefeated How will the NBA and other sports leagues acknowledge the one-year anniversary of George Floyd’s murder by a Minneapolis police officer? How the sports world commemorates Floyd — or whether it remembers him at all on Tuesday — will go a long way in telling us how far we […]
Small groups remember the death of George Floyd a year ago today. – New York City New York USA – May 25, 2021 (Shutterstock) New York — On the one year anniversary of the murder of George Floyd, Maya Wiley released the following statement: “‘Daddy changed the world.’ Those were the words of little Gianna Floyd, […]
Derek Chauvin’s guilty verdict doesn’t save us, but here are some ideas that might help
Woman leading a group of demonstrators on road. Group of women protesting for human rights and against racism. – Miami Downtown, FL, USA – May 31, 2020 (Shutterstock) By Lonnae O’Neal, The Undefeated I am dreaming of ways to keep Black children safe from the police. I am scheming up scenarios where Black people have […]
America, and its rich and powerful, didn’t actually care about Black people when they put out statements and donated money
People pray and take a knee for nine minutes and 29 seconds in memory of George Floyd on the first anniversary of his death, May 25, 2021 in Los Angeles. (Shutterstock) By Martenzie Johnson, The Undefeated I truly believed things would be different this time. And can you blame me? In the moments following the […]
Hundreds take streets after jury finds former police Derek Chauvin guilty on all three counts in death of George Floyd in New York City, United States on April 20, 2021. (Shuterstock) By Alexis Karteron, Jeannine Bell, Rashad Shabazz & Ric Simmons, The Conversation Scholars analyze the guilty verdicts handed down to former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin […]
Hundreds take streets after the jury finds former police Derek Chauvin guilty on all three counts in the death of George Floyd in New York City, United States on April 20, 2021. (Shutterstock) By BBC After less than a day of deliberation, jurors have found Derek Chauvin guilty of all charges over George Floyd’s death. […]
Bill Would Reform Law Enforcement Agencies, Give State Attorneys General Statutory Authority to Investigate Unconstitutional Policing
NEW YORK – New York Attorney General Letitia James and Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul today led a coalition of 10 attorneys general in urging the U.S. Senate to pass H.R. 1280, the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act of 2021. The bill would reform law enforcement agencies nationwide, give state attorneys general clear statutory authority to investigate […]
Patrick C. Graham, Ph.D., who currently serves as a Senior Policy Advisor for the City of Richmond and Executive Advisor for ReWork Richmond, penned the following Op-Ed outlining his perspective of the Derek Chauvin trial. Derek Chauvin’s Fate is a Test for Our Democracy There was a distant emptiness in the Minneapolis police […]
By SPLC Center MONTGOMERY, Ala. — The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) today announced that over 100 Confederate symbols have been removed since May 26, 2020 — the start of the protests following the police killing of George Floyd. The Whose Heritage? report’s data and map track public symbols of the Confederacy across the United States. Since […]
A Black, male activist protesting the death of George Floyd and Mike Ramos, a Black Hispanic man killed by Austin police, confronts a white officer blocking a street. – Austin, TX/USA-May 31, 2020 (Shutterstock) By Zak Cheney-Rice, NY Mag Weeks of protests and opinion polls have demonstrated that a multiracial coalition of Americans supports a […]